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diff --git a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
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--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(module_doc,
"At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class IOBase. It\n"
"defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no\n"
"separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are\n"
-"allowed to throw an IOError if they do not support a given operation.\n"
+"allowed to raise an IOError if they do not support a given operation.\n"
"\n"
"Extending IOBase is RawIOBase which deals simply with the reading and\n"
"writing of raw bytes to a stream. FileIO subclasses RawIOBase to provide\n"